Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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As director I got to vacuum the crew bedrooms, as producer I carried out the garbage.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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We (Australians) are kinda crazy and we like to go on these fantastic rides.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that.. We're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
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